FIRE pairs machine learning with advanced DNA sequencing to help pinpoint the DNA changes behind hereditary diseases—a crucial step toward gene-based therapies.
Read MoreResearch uncovers how people with specific genetic change associated with sickle cells are much less likely to develop severe malaria.
Read MoreDNA sequencing links independent reports of ‘Lilliputian’ hallucinations to a single mushroom species—one with no previously identified psychoactive compounds, suggesting the presence of a new hallucinogenic chemical.
Read MoreStudy identifies the Overdrive gene as a quality control “checkpoint” for sperm formation in Drosophila, which gets weaponized by selfish chromosomes to boost odds of passing into the next generation.
Read MoreAcademia has long dismissed the notion that Indigenous people of the American Southwest domesticated native plants.
Read MoreResults challenge common beliefs about suicide risk and show that new approaches are urgently needed.
Read MoreOne group of cells called microglia amps up anxiety response, while another quiets them, according to research led by Mario Capecchi.
Read MoreAudrey Brown explores why an important epigenetic gene is missing in some species of roundworm.
Read MoreU biologists identified how the synaptonemal complex regulates gene exchanges between chromosomes in nematodes, a process remarkably similar across sexually reproducing organisms and a leading cause of infertility in humans.
Read MoreResearchers and Coast Salish people analyze 160-year Indigenous dog pelt in the Smithsonian’s collection to understand the culturally significant Coast Salish Woolly Dog and counter the colonial narrative.
Read MoreJames Tabery offers a scathing critique of the “revolution” in health care, arguing it has added to spiraling health care costs while failing to deliver on many of its promises.
Read MoreBlack Americans have a higher risk of stroke than other ethnic groups and a higher rate of death and disability after a stroke.
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